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k SUBSCRIPTION INPATRIOTS AO) O THE SPANISH , CITY OF LONDON TAVERN, Inic YR•I3. rinHE COMMITTEE appointed on 'the 9th of • December, by the MERCHANTS and INHABI— T ANTS of LON DON, to attend to the Application of a General Subscriptian in aid of the brave SPANISH ,PA. T It 10 - IS, now struggling in the Field to defend their Coun try from a foreign and cruel Invader, cannot discharge that duty without mating atiearnost Appeal to , the Attention of their generous Countrymen, of all ranks, in behalf of a Na 'inn and a C:nlye. so iriteresting to all the sympathies of Bri- WS. r A people contending for their independence, liberties, and security, - from - foreign tyranny and. oppression—a. nation, friendly.in its dispositions —honourable , in all its national conduct and charatter—fitted by political•atid- commercial interests and relations, to•be - closely connected inalliance and friendship with feat Britain, and now struggbng with he roic -fortitude, in a common cause, against a common and Mast_ formidable . toe ; suffering in the 'arduous co ntiitt greatest hardships, and enduring the severest privations, has, 'surety,. suck 'claims of every kind on every i nh abitant of these islands ; and though the greatest excations have, with the general approbation of this nation, been inade by Go - Niritilient to aherd the most extensive, speedy, and ededual aids of treasure; arms, ammunition, military stores, equip .tnents, and ciothirK, for the maintenance and support of the Spanish troops, together with the succour of large bodies of • lirdish soldiers,•it is still felt, that the generous manifesta tion of the popular-sentiment, and such further aids,'at - va rious kinds, as a general and liberal Subscription may sup ply, cannot but have an etled animating and consoling to tile hpanish soldier, asd convincing to the Spanish Government and people, of the perfect- union in opinion and sentiment whiett on tilts SllbjeCt bl.lbSlStli throughout these islands. 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Exercises, and the Key, in'iheir commlo form. and at their usual prices, will . continue 16 be sold sepaiatcly o r towlier, for the'itse of ;clionls and private graminatical works, all the other publications of the same author may be hau of the abtre Douksellov, AMERICA, NEw-YORK, Nov. 16. 7 , The following is an ex-. traa of a letter, dated Point Petre", Guadaloupe, to a Gentleman of Savannah : " Yesterday all the town was in an. uproar, in consequence of our descryin twenty-Qoe.sailof ves sels standing in for this port, which were supposed to be enelities. Alarm guns were fired, and every one turned out', eager to meet the enemy; but they proved to be 16 sail of transports, full of provisions, from. B.onrdeaux, under convoy of l'Atalande and ilicilienne of 44 guns each, with three English prizes, carrying 36, 24, and 20 guns, richly laden." The following is an extract of a letter, dated Nat chitoches, Aug. You heard, no doubt, of the French General D'ALVIVAR, who passed some two or three weeks ago, through Opelousas, on his -way to Mexico. — He has been stopped at Nacogdoches; to consequence of orders received by the Commandant of that place (twenty days . before his arrival there) from the Commandant-General SALCiDO, and will be obliged to remain there until further orders.—The French General took it in high dudgeon, and wrote to Gen. SALCEDO, in these terms :---,-" Sir, you may. for a moment impede my- progress in the country, but you will not be able w prevent my going to Mexico." D'ALmivAR told a friend in Nacogdoches, that he was going to take the command of 12,000 -troops, at Camp Jalapa, near Vera Cruz. Thereare seven or eight French Generals on their way to that coun try. All the offices of Government are now filled by- Frenchmen, to,counteraet (as it is said) the plans' heretofore formed by the late Prince of Peace."— (Orleans Gazette.) SAVANNAH, OCT. 6.—Accounts from St. Mary's, by the last mails, represent that place as very un healthy. Letters from thence state the prevalence of a disease, attended with every symptom of yellow fever. Though the Faculty did ❑ot consider it con tagious, most of the inhabitants, we understand, had deserted the town Find fled into the country. — The following is extras ed from a letter received by last mail, dated on Friday , " The fever has raged here more violently than I ever knew it in Georgia. Although it was at first conceived to be very panial, it has extended to at least one-third of the inhabitants. There are now said to be forty-eight cases, of which nineteen --- are black 5 and fourteen, exclusive of this number, have been interred. The town is nearly deserted." MAILS. GOttCllbUrg:l. DUK-..f Gottenbburgh, Dubtio, z Waterford. THE SU N. SOLILLI QUICDVCIIRI /AL3UZ.I AI;DILAT L 0 N D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1808. lit is with extreme regret that we announce the loss of His Majesty's-Ship the Jupiter, of 50 guns. She was, we understand, wrecked going in►o Vigo; but we are not in possession of the details. There is no part of the conductof the Opposition Writers which is more illiberal than the attempt to excite invidious rivalry, and sow divisions among our Officers. We have noticed several by these at tempts, wi.h respect to Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY and Sir JOHN MO ORE. The friends of the former arc too liberal to indulge in any such mischievous comparisons, and we wish we could say the same of those who pretend to be friends of the latter. As to the gallant Officers: themselves, we are perinaded that they must lodk with c ontcmpt on such despica ble attempts to set them in opposition to each other, and that they can be actuated only by a noble emulation to distinguish theMselves in supporting the honour and interest of their country.. An Opposition Paper amuses itself in imagining a conversation between Lord CASTLEREAGH and Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, and favours the public with a speech ot 'the former. In a day or two, perhaps, we shall , find the Paper allUded to, reasoning, we beg pardon, animadverting, upon this invented con versation, as an aEtual occurrence which it ,had faitlffully reported, and drawing the most alarming inferences from its imaginary premises. But another organ of party, which is obviously as hostile to Sj s r ARTHUR WELLESLEY as the other is favotirable to Sir JOHN -MoonE,. adverting; to the condua of the former in Portugal, says, that he was " precipitate." It is strange to apply this epithet to an Officer who so fully carried his plan into exe tution7-3 plan that has been approved by the best authorities, and which, if properly followed up, in the opinion of the same authorities, would have ac complished the complete overthrow of the enemy ! Not precipitatiou then, but prompitade, coolness, spirit, sagacity, and• decision, are the genuine fea tures of Sir Aturnoß'S military charaaer. The Duke of CUMBERLAND arrived at Windsor,. on Monday evening, to join the Dukes of KENT and CAMBRIDGE, in spending the Christmas holidays with their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES. YesNrday afternoon, at fOur o'clock, his Royal Highness the Prince of WAI,ES arrived at . Carleton , House in his travelling chaise and four, from a Christ mas visit to their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES at Windsor. ; Letters from the coast of France state, that Bonn: deaux and the neighbourl jood ekhibit the appearance of being the theatre of afloat war, from the number of troops con tinuilly pa:iiing that way . into Spain. 'The farmers have no to fiver than 15 men billeted upon . each of them ; ana the roads are completely j (.?! - 9 up by the trawort artiNry, r SECOND EDITION♦ MPORTANT INTELLIGENCE ' , Rog SPAIN. "Vrg arc at length enabled to communicate to our Readers some inielligence from Spain, and we are happy to say that, as far as it goes, it is of a satisfac tory nature. The Orestes Sloop of War has arrived from Co runna, which pine she left on the 14th inst. At .hat time it was known that the French had advanced :owards Madrid, and that they were in possession of the Escurial ; but it was reported, and generally be lieved in Gallicia, that the French had been repulsed with great slaughter in an attack upon Madrid. Government have received Dispatches from Sir Jonx MooRE, dated the Bth inst. Sir JOHN, we understand, states, that he had not received any positive intelligence of the progress of the French, but he had received accounts that Madrid still held out. Sir Join also adds, that he was taking [llea* sues to &feel a junEtion between his own Army And hat of Sir DAVID This is, we have reason to believe, the substance of the Dispatches from Sir ,Tontt MOORE ; and the accounts from Corunna state, that be had- pushed on a corps to Zamora, for the purpose of facilitating his iunEtion with Sir DAVID BAIRD. When this.}unc- ion shall have taken place, there will be in Spain an united British Army of 40,000 men. The Army of the Marquis De Rom...NA, which s at Leon, a►uounts to 00,000 men, and is daily in- creasing. It gives us great pleasure to find that the reverses which the Spaniards have sustained have not creased any feelings of dispundency ; on the contrary it has roused them to greater exertions. From the whole of this intelligence, we are strongly inclined to believe that the accounts in the French Papers, of Madrid having capitulated on the 4th inst. is unfounded, because we can hardly suppose that if that event had taken place on that day, it would not have been known to Sir J. Mooch, at Salamanca, on the 811.1, or that some account of it would not have reached Corunna by the 14th, and our opinion upon this subject is strengthened by the circumstance of our nothaving received lately any accounts from France, containing • the details of the surrender of Madrid, for we know very well that when BUONA- PARTE obtains any great success, lie always contrives to give us very early information upon the subjea. Upon the whole, we consider the intelligence from Spain as extremely gratifying. 'There is, we have no doubt, before this time, in the North and in the North-west of Spain, an united British - Army of 40,000 men, a Spanish Army of above 20,000 men, and , daily increasing. In the South (even supposing the French to be in possession of Madrid) there is the Army of General CASTANOS, which by the confession of the French Bulletins, amounted, after the battle of Tudela to 31,000 men, principally troops of the line, a force which must be continually receiving reinforcements from Andalu- sia, Valencia; Murcia, Catalonia,. and Arragon, in a word, from the whole South of Spain. CSpt. THOMAS FORREST, of his Majesty's Ship Prometheus, tell in on Nov. 29, with 34 vessels, part of a dispersed c , nvoy from StockhOlm, under protetion of the Alert Brio . -of War, which he brought t►+rough the Belt, ai7d - saw them 20 leagues': to the westward•of the Scaw, when he left then - Lail well on the 3d inst. under protection of the Snipe and Acute Gun-brigs, and returned to the Baltic.— The Prometheus was the first British Ship of War in the Belt this season, and Capt. FORREST immediately destroyed the telegraph on Sproe Island, which in terrupted the communication. between Funen' and Zealand. This was of very essential ,service, and his appearance in the Belt at that time prevented the embarkation of the enemy's troops to Zealand. A considerable embarkation of troops is, about to take place at Ramsgate. Ten thousand additional' stand of arms are also immediately to be shipped at Woolwich. Lieutenant DAwsoN has been promoted to the rank of Commander, from the date of the cap ture of La Piedniontaise, and was appointed by Sir EDWARD PELLEW to a Post-ship, La Dedaignuese, of 36 guns, in which he sailed in May last, in charge of the China Convoy, CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 28.—There are to-day tolerable supplies of grain in general, but owing to the_Thatues navigation not being quite clear, very few buyers attended; the Wheat and Oats that were sold rather gave way in price, Out in other articles there is little variation, and the prices are again considered almost nominal. On Saturday next, pecember 31, Three Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds must be drawn, being t h e Last Day of Drawing. THIRD EDITION. SUA-OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK., P. X. We stop the Press to state that French Pape( have been sent to Dover in an empty boat, con!aln- ing the Bulletins from. Madrid. to the 7th instant- These state, that One of the Suburbs and thelidtito being stormed, Gen. M0nt....0,11e forward to propose terms;. BuoNAPAaTE was , extrethely insolent in ,hi; language to him, upon which call the• Spanish ArrlV left Madrid for the Sierra, and the'inbabitnnts were allowed to surrender. , it seems by the Jimiletios. that the ,Spaniar4' I.ad made a bold resistance. iltiotiArAnTa had detaeltedlarge patties of cl4` valry towards Portugal. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH': Dcc. 24.—Sailed" the Frigate on a cruize, to the Westwefd, Arrived the Mona, of London, J. Trompsos' Master s from, Jamaica, laden with coffee, cott cP ' &c. for London ; the Brig Charlton, of Poole, I' BRADDY. Master, from Newfoundland, laden Wil li fish, bound to Poole; and the Brig Mary Capt. HARE, from Gibraltar, laden with raisins, &c..bound to London. This morning at eight o'clock, the signal for punishment was hoisted on board the Port Admirarg Ship the Salvador del Mundo, and also on board th e Parthian, of 16 guns, laying in_liammaze, for th* execution of James Smith, late Master's Mate o £ the latter, for the murder of Capt. BALnEgsr°l4' her ComMander, and at twenty minutes past 111 / 1 6: o'clock he was executed' at the fore-yard arm of t h° 7. Parthian. • SHEERNESS, Dec. 27.—Sailed up the ItiverTba rliel ' the his Majesty's Ship St. Fioren::.o, to be paid 00 - ; Chaile4ger, Capt. RYDEA, for the Downs. I t tO supposeJ some material damage has been dose I • the shipping. down . the Severn, as great quallt ilB , of wreck, &c.. has, floated past the Nore wi th . t ' o flood tide. MS...MEMO o f FALMOUTH,: DEC. 25.—The Orestes Sloop War h arrived frocn• Corunna is eight days , brings an account of the British army, having jolt) 11 ; and that Madrid was not possession of the Fre e on the 4th. The Jupiter Man of War, and a TransVr, t a b a lost in Vigo Bay. The Lady Pellew Packet has been dispatche d f r°° Corunna for Lisbon. TARRAGOZVA,Nor. 19. (EXTRACT OF A LETTER.) 01 0 I am confident you will hear with plea-ect from an old friend, who, tired to live in a condi-I'so state of alarm in Barcelona; took the resolution, long ago as the beginning of June, to leave that Pis and retire to this part of the country with 1)I 5 for and little family. As I left a clerk in my bc use i . n re the sole purpose of attending to some pending —llO cerns, I have suffered grievously the effea s yf French contributory system ; but, on the Ot'o. hand, I have spared myself the pain of being . cc o g. tinually harrassed by the variety of their eNwr9()eiri Hardly had I left Barcelona, when the first div','- e gr e' came towards this place ; but luckily the Aff:lir the M0U1113414 of Monserrat deroneed al .exception of ( t. oc plans ; and ever since, with the ,ree casional alarm, we heve enjoyed a tolerable w hat of tranquillity. I think it fruitless to ree°t,ncet you must already have seen in your Papers , , ing the events in this Province. It is, hovi e :; - ;14 fact, which. cannot be too often repeated ot„,ce first action near Monserrar, where a handful 0 ' " . 5e ,) (you-may take the expression in its strietest s e d il r ed obliged a column of one thouStind five liti n der French to abandon _their attempt on t he Fo to , Mills that we. have at Memeca, saved the rp e o vince, and indirectly contributed to th e bad StlC' the French, experienced in Valentin and Arragro, yll Their plan was certainly to attack b oth these vinces, in concert with Generals Moncey and v. , L e bre, to effeEt which the erinrdetached from Barce„'ve na, consisting of 5000 men, divided its elf into :r, columns, one of which was tottake th e route of l'the ragon, at the other that of Valencia. SO r 1.0 first myself that advanced - a few m iles fronl.ct atf piece, when • all of a sudden, in conseqeence Jo express received by their General , they retreat'' fast as they could run, and the day followinge:,`"o,l 1;c1 ated this par: of the province. We have utio" inconveniences to contend with , but, hapeilY,l,set have all been surmounned, and our army ‘‘.111,':00,./ be 40,000 strong, of regular troops. i• - ; ever, is not quite enough, a n d what we ‘41111't . ' 1 :,.. ) ,) particularly is cavalry. The French have some partial reinforeemcnei, and th&y,keep ground at Figueras and its environs, to Which P t d, it is said, our principal forces will be , soon a irc ."Gere r under the command of General Fives , mib'te Li e tY Reding will remain before Barcelona w ith a b ° 12 0,00 men. There is a current r epert co o the or English have already began to br e uoaqi 01° li e l del of Barcelona, and great hopes - a ;-,; that the French will soon be Li 4 .13 11411C ' T. • . eu rot